Actress Joan Fontaine’s property to be auctioned

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Actress Joan Fontaine's property to be auctioned

Items from the California home of Academy Award-winning actress Joan Fontaine, including her 1941 Oscar for best actress, are heading for the auction block. The 104 lots of fine art, silver, lighting, …

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Lisa Ray plans cancer research institute in India

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Mumbai, Oct 14 (IANS) Ever since Canada-born Indian actress Lisa Ray battled Multiple Myeloma, a form of cancer, she has campaigned for the cause and spoken widely of it to spread awareness. Now, she’s planning to open her own research institute for cancer in India.

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Amal takes Clooney as last name, heads back to work

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Los Angeles, Oct 14 (IANS) British human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin, who tied the knot with Hollywood star George Clooney recently, has taken her husband’s last name and wants to be addressed as “Amal Clooney”.

Softbank to hire Rajeev Misra from Fortress Investment Group – Bloomberg

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Rajeev Misra, Managing Director and Global Head of Credit Trading, Securitization and Commodities, Deutsche Bank AG speaks during the Credit: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow panel at the 2008 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California

REUTERS – Japanese telecommunications company Softbank Corp is hiring Rajeev Misra from Fortress Investment Group , Bloomberg reported, citing people close to the matter. Misra, a former debt-trading executive at Deutsche Bank and UBS AG , joined Fortress Investment Group LLC earlier this year. Misra, who has not yet left Fortress, plans to relocate to either Silicon Valley or San Francisco from London and will focus on acquisitions, according to the report. It is not immediately clear what position Misra will hold. …

Obama girls, Malala, Lorde make Time’s ‘influential teens’ list

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Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai leaves after speaking at Birmingham library in Birmingham

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The daughters of U.S. President Barack Obama, entertainers, a Nobel laureate and a girl baseball player all made Time’s annual list of most influential teenagers, the magazine said on Monday. First daughters Malia, 16, and Sasha, 13; Grammy-winning New Zealand singer Lorde, 17; and Nobel Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai, 17, the Pakistani education activist winner, were all on the unranked list dominated by 20 females. …